Polls open until 8 p.m. for library voters--Columbian, Tom Vogt
Voters face library issue today--Oregonian, Allan Brettman
House approves Louisiana-style primary--Seattle Times, Andrew
Garber
County staves off social service cuts for this year--Columbian,
Erin Middlewood
Judge orders Columbia Credit Union to hold special
meeting--Columbian, Jonathan Nelson
Dumb and Dumber arrested--Columbian, John Branton
Chamber gets through to ODOT, bridge lifts delayed--Columbian,
Thomas Ryll
Abandoned animals getting TLC at Human Society--Columbian, John
Branton
Amphitheater signs Aguilera, Fleetwood Mac--Columbian
Library issue
excites voters; nearly half the 54,740 absentee ballots have been
returned
Of 54,740
absentee ballots mailed for today’s $48 million library district
election, nearly half, 25,566, had been returned to the Clark County
Elections Department by today’s mail.
Because
additional voters also requested mail-in ballots, the total number
of votes cast thus far is 26,490.
The proposed
library district, which covers all of Vancouver and all of its urban
growth area, except for the area northwest of the city, which has a
total of 92,937 registered voters. The area northwest of Vancouver
earlier became its own library district after voters there approved
this and a bond issue for the Three-Creeks Library,
Most election
watchers predict a better than 35 percent total voter turnout.
At stake is
creation of the library district, which requires a simple majority
vote, and the bond issue, which requires a 60 percent majority, and
which would double the size of the downtown Vancouver Community
Library and create a 25,000 square foot library for the east side of
Vancouver at the Firstenburg Community Center.
Polling places
will be open until 8 p.m. tonight. Absentee ballots must be
postmarked today or be returned to a polling place or the county
Elections Department, 1408 Franklin Street.
The Fort
Vancouver Regional Library District modernization project would also
provide for new administration and storage space for district
operations.
Because of space
restrictions, the 40-year-old downtown library barely accommodates
patrons seeking information, print and electronic books and
periodicals, and Internet service.
Minneapolis-based firm likes downtown Vancouver, decides to set up
shop
Logic Product
Development, one of the country’s largest product development firms,
headquartered in Minneapolis, yesterday announced, with Columbia
River Economic Development Council, that it is remodeling a building
at 315 Columbia Street, just south of the city’s Hilton Hotel and
convention center site, for its northwest headquarters.
Logic CEO
Danny Cunagin says Vancouver
was chosen for the company’s expansion because of the city’s
downtown revitalization and its innovative workforce training
incentive program, and because Logic’s product development partners,
Sharp Microelectronics and Microsoft are within easy reach.
Logic already
has a staff of eight working in Vancouver and plans an expansion
that will help the company enter worldwide markets.
Clark’s
Women’s Chorale Ensemble arts center benefit features world
premieres
The world
premiere of works for women’s choirs by
Matt Doran and Clark College
music professor Gordon Trousdale
will be presented during the 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 11. benefit
concert for the Southwest Washington Center for the Arts in Gaiser
Hall on the Clark campus.
Doran and
Trousdale new works are based on the poetry of W. B. Yeats,
Christina Ro= 0 setti and e.e. cummings.
The Clark
College Women’s Chorale Ensemble, directed by
April Brookins Duvic, will be
joined by the Prairie High School Jubilettes, directed by
Carol Patton, and the
Evergreen High School Chamber Singers, directed by
Mikkel Iverson.
For further
information on the $5 concert, call
992-2245.
Ethelynda
Jaojoco joins Southwest Washington Medical Center’s Rebound
Ethelynda Jaojoco has joined
the physician’s staff at Southwest Washington Medical Center’s
Physical Medicine and Rebound Rehabilitation practice.
Jaojoco, most
recently chief resident at the University of Cincinnati physical
medicine and rehabilitation department, is a graduate of the
University of the East Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Quezon
City, Philippines. The medical center’s Physical Medicine and
Rebound Center offers services for outpatients as well as
inpatients.
News briefs
The C-TRAN
board meets at 5:15 p.m. today.
nnn Turkish
folk entertainer Latif Bolat
performs during a free program at 7 p.m. tonight in the WSU
Vancouver Student Services Building, room 110.
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Tuesday on the air
Integrity of Leaders in the Public Sector—3:30 p.m. CVTV
Celebrating Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards—4:30 p.m. CVTVB
Clark County Land Use Hearings (3/4)—7 p.m. CVTV
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